Nuts are they ok to eat and lose weight

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  • nickatine
    nickatine Posts: 451 Member
    No one food is good or bad for weight loss, calories in vs calories out is all that matters when you are trying to lose weight. Ps weigh those nuts n measure out those nut butters they are extremely easy to overdo.
  • zaeaton
    zaeaton Posts: 11
    I eat 6 almonds every morning
  • Robertus
    Robertus Posts: 558 Member
    edited March 2015
    DaradysMom wrote: »
    Eat them along with grapes, which are very filling. They get mixed with raisins a lot, but grapes are better for feeling full.
    Early on in my dieting, I ate a lot of grapes with nuts. My wife and I referred to it as my macrobiotic form of peanut butter & jelly. Dry nuts and juicy grapes make a good combo. Much more filling than nuts on their own and much fewer calories, but also more sustaining for a longer period than grapes alone. I would usually eat about a half-cup of walnuts or almonds combined with 2 cups of green seedless grapes. Low calories, good nutrition, easy to prepare, and yummy.

  • perkins_lm
    perkins_lm Posts: 11 Member
    I haven't read all of these posts, so forgive me if I am repeating what someone else has said. I see a nutritionist weekly, and she has told me over and over that nuts are good even though they are high in calories. She cites a study where there was 2 groups of people in the study. The "control group" went about their nutrition with a certain allotted amount of calories. The "test group" ate the same number of calories, but the diet included nuts as a major source of protein. On average, the group which ate nuts lost more weight than the control group.

    I have found that as a snack a 1/4 cup of nuts fills me up. I actually am satisfied more with trail mix, so I have 1/4 cup of that (which includes 5g of protein). I guess that would make it less than 1/4 cup of pure nuts, when you include the raisins. Anyways, that holds me over for 2-3 hours until dinner.

    Give them a try.
  • ValerieCKenney
    ValerieCKenney Posts: 2
    They are good for you, but high in calories and very high in fat. I accidentally consumed 800 kcals from nuts because i just didn't realize I was eating so many of them. 6 Brazil nuts have over 200 kcals.
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    As long as you are not eating the entire sack, you should be fine.

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  • devil_in_a_blue_dress
    devil_in_a_blue_dress Posts: 5,214 Member
    Derpes wrote: »
    As long as you are not eating the entire sack, you should be fine.

    peanuts_sack_salted.jpg

    Scratch that.

    They make 100 calorie sacks.
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    itsfuntobenormal wrote: »
    Derpes wrote: »
    As long as you are not eating the entire sack, you should be fine.

    peanuts_sack_salted.jpg

    Scratch that.

    They make 100 calorie sacks.

    Those are extra salty.
  • egsimi
    egsimi Posts: 7 Member
    for me losing weight required a big shift in what I eat... whereas I used to eat lots of bready and surgery foods I had to now shift and skip those. Cereal, sandwiches, candy, they are right out. Lean meats, eggs, fresh veggies, at least one fruit a day, some nuts, some cheese and some low fat dairy like Greek yogurt or cottage cheese.

    Add in a brisk walk every night for about 30 minutes and it works (94 pounds now for me). I am almost never hungry or feel wanting.

    so if you want nuts in your diet, keep to about an ounce.

    If you do not want nuts then don't eat them, there is no rule that says you have to but they are a part of a balanced meal, key word is balanced though, they should be eaten with other foods that are also filling, foods high in protein or high in good fats. Carbs in bread and cereal are not going to fill you up long term, they will be in and out in an hour or two at most and its really easy to munch through too many nuts when you are hungry.

    Key Takeaway, you need to eat other filling foods that will sate you long term to be able to reap the benefits of nuts.

    Second important note, find a meal and exercise plan that works for you and you can stick to... if you don't it wont work long term no matter how much you want it to.
  • thelittlecharacter
    thelittlecharacter Posts: 69 Member
    Only fit them into your day as a means of getting unsaturated fats in the body. A serving to 1/2 servings of raw nuts a day can aid the body in fat loss when you're exercising enough. They are a pretty horrible and boring snack unless you pair them up with yogurt and a banana or something.
  • VerlaCollins
    VerlaCollins Posts: 8
    Yes, nuts are healthy for your body. Many factors affect your health. Nuts can control your blood pressure and cholesterol. If you are going to reduce weight it should be a natural method.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    nuts (*)
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    thelittlecharacter wrote: »
    ...They are a pretty horrible and boring snack...

    :o
    Agree to disagree.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    A quarter cup of pistachios actually fill me up when I eat them slowly. Delicious too!
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    thelittlecharacter wrote: »
    Only fit them into your day as a means of getting unsaturated fats in the body. A serving to 1/2 servings of raw nuts a day can aid the body in fat loss when you're exercising enough. They are a pretty horrible and boring snack unless you pair them up with yogurt and a banana or something.

    A food being "horrible and boring" seems utterly subjective.

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